Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-05-05
GRANTS MEMORY.
1t Is OommemOrated by His Admirers at
Pittsburgh and Other
Places.
Mark Twain Scathingly Crltlcises the
Critics or the Generals
Grammar.

The Americas Club of Pittsburgh COM
memorated the sixty-fifth anniversary Of
Gen. Grants birth by banqueting at the
Monongahela House OF that city. The
tables in the banquet hall were arranged so
as to make the initials "U. s. c., and
were elaborately decorated with flower
pieces containing the initial letters of the
deceased Presidents name and the dates
1922 1887. Gov. Foraker occupied the seat
assigned Gen. Grant ON the occasion of the
receipt on given to Linn on his return from
his trip around the world. After the tables
had been cleared Governor Foraker was
introduced and responded to the toast "U.
s. Grant" He sketched the life of
the General from early manhood 10 the
close of his honorable career.
THAT he was not a third time called TO the
Presidency" said Gov Foraker. ~was due TO
considerations that had no relation whatever to
him personally. On the contrary he never
more securely intrenched in the affections OF
the American pc ople than he was at the very
moment when the historic fight OF the 300 de-
termne followers ended in defeat at Chicago
1t seemed as though no could not pos
sbly do anything more to increase the
esteem and affeetionate regard in which
he was held, but he could-and he did
He was unwittingly involved and overwhelmed
by financial disaster, and practically at the
same time smitten by fatal malady. The un-
conquerable character OF his nature was never
more clearly demonstrated than then. lt would
DO difficult to exaggerate the heroic fortitude
and true Christian patience he displayed in the
pathetic, unequal, but successful struggle that
followed. job cried out in his lamentations
and said, 'Oh that mine adversary had writ
ten II book as IL that were. it probably is,
the most surely fatal undertaking any ordi-
nary nan can assume. Gen. Grants last work
was TO write q book He had IA double pur-
pose to serve He sought not only to record
his recollection of the great events with which
he had been identified but also to provide
against want for the faithful and deserving
companion OF his life and partner of all his joys
and sorrows. It has been graphically said by
some one that rs he sat at one side Of the table
writing, Death sat ut tho opposite side impa-
tently waiting and watching.
Without Il tremor or a murmur, hedevoted
himself to his labor Of love. A merciful Provi-
dence heightened his days and gave him
strength until the last line and word had been
written, and his heart had been gladdened by
the assurance that both his purposes had been
accomplished, and then, as gently as day into
night, he passed into eternity"
Roscoe Conklng sent a letter of regret, in
which he said:
To jon in paying honor to the memory OF a
man , illustrious and SO true TO his country
and friends so firm set 30 calm and enduring
under calumny, suffering, and sorrow, would be
a nournful and grateful privilege / should feel
ut home in doing so with those who did not wait
for the gorifcation of his death TO show them
the rugged grandeur OF Grant the honesty Of
his purposes and his reverence for the rights Of
every fellow-creature.